Hello, everyone! You can call me Affie. I'm nineteen, and I hail from the country of Fado and high taxes. (Portugal!
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I am currently studying Anthropology in a Lisbon University, and it was thanks to my wonderful class that I started questioning my identity. One of my friends came out to me as trans (something that really surprised me, given that we'd rarely talked before that - I guess I just look very trustworthy?) a few months ago, and that seemed to bring a lot of things that I had buried deep down, back to the surface. It was overwhelming, at first, but now I think I have started to accept it, and am adjusting accordingly.
This is by no means the first time I am considering all this; ever since I was a child, I've always felt at home in male clothes or doing male stuff. I had a huge collection of miniature cars and dinosaurs that everyone was very jealous of.
SRS was something I had looked into, mainly out of curiosity - now I ask myself if maybe there was something else behind it.
So far, I am only out to a few, very close friends, mostly because I'm not entirely sure this is who I truly am - even though I am pretty sure it is, I still want to wait a while and see what happens. I haven't yet come out to my family, even though I really want to. My mum's reaction when I so much as touch the subject puts me off, though. She's very transphobic.
I like Sherlock and Doctor Who, hedgehogs, horses, Bastille, Anthropology, (though I'll drop out this year and change to Equine Management instead!) painting, drawing, reading, fishes, and a lot of other stuff. I own a dog, two guinea pigs, a bunny and a parakeet.
Aaaand this is getting huge, already. Here, have an apologetic smooch from Mr. Barney:
I hope I'll get to know a lot of people here, and that I will learn much more about this whole world that I am still very new to.
